This is a devotional offered to the deacons at their meeting on Sunday, March 15th, 2020. They met to discuss the church's actions related to the COVID-19 virus. It turns out, Moses is helpful on this one.

A sermon for the second Sunday of Lent at Oxford Baptist Church. In life, we face uncertainty all the time. How do we proceed faithfully?

A sermon for the First Sunday of Lent at Oxford Baptist Church.

If faith is like riding a bike, then maybe, sometimes, we ride the backward brain bike.

Jesus uses the tangible to evoke the spirtual in service to transformation.

We can learn four important things from the Wise Men on Epiphany Sunday: to seek counsel, to act diligently, to give generously, and to cultivate wisdom.

Sometimes we feel out of place. If we think about it, most of the folks at the manger that night did too. But isn't that the good news of the Gospel? No matter who we are or how out of place we feel, God still meets us, no matter what.

The matter at hand is not merely that God's presence, work, call, and love overwhelm us at times, but that when we are overwhelmed, God is with us as well.

God prepares us and gives us what we need to be prepared...even when - or especially when - that is different from what we might expect.

Advent reminds us about the gap between what is and what will be. What happened is not yet what will happen either. Advent helps us with that as it shows our need to fill in the gap between what is and what will be. Christians fill that gap with faith. Oh, sometimes it is anxiety, frustration, disappointment, trauma, or even busyness, but what we are called most to is to fill in the gaps with faith.